Matthew Lawrence Gregg

Matthew Lawrence Gregg (8 February 1815-17 September 1889) was a General of the US Army and the commander of the Little Rock garrison during Reconstruction.

Biography
Matthew Lawrence Gregg was born in Springfield, Ohio on 8 February 1815, and he attended the US Military Academy at West Point from 1833 to 1837. Gregg served as a Captain during the Mexican-American War, and he rose to the rank of Major in 1855. Gregg entered the Ohio state militia between the Mexican war and the American Civil War, and he became a Brigadier-General in the US Army at the start of the war with the Confederate States of America. Gregg fought against the Confederate States Army in the western theater of the war, and he was given command of the garrison of Little Rock, Arkansas during Reconstruction. Gregg led over 6,000 troops in suppressing Dixie nationalism, Confederate revanchism, and anti-African-American laws.